a thing i am tired of being frustrated by

[fox]

So okay. On the computer I was using in college - a Mac II-something, bless its heart - the word processing program I used, which was probably Microsoft Works (anyone remember that)? made it much easier than I think it is now to get the basic western European diacritics: with the command or apple key and a, e, i, u, c, or n, you could apply a grave accent, acute accent, circumflex, umlaut, cedilla, or tilde to the next letter you typed, whatever it was. (So command-e followed by e gave you é.) (I assume there were easy ways to get the macron, the slash through the o, the circle on top of the a, the ogonek, and the hacek, as well, but I didn't need those then.)

Now, I can't do any of this. In Word and even in its clones, I have to go to "insert" and then "symbol" and then scroll all around until I find the letter I want with the diacritic I want on it. But I feel like there must be something I'm missing. Someone, please tell me: are there keystrokes for (combining) ´, ̀, ˆ, ¨, ¸ ˜, ̌, ̨, etc.?

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[queue]

Yeah, not as responsive as I'd hoped, especially since I didn't completely understand what you were looking for :-s. Sorry about that. I understand your frustration, and I certainly agree that the cuts aren't all that short in most cases. I find the shortcut function useful because I use it for single symbols, not for diacritical markings. Maybe someone on your flist/circle - or on the wider Web - has come up with a workaround. *crosses fingers*